2025 was an incredibly rewarding year, full of unexpected gifts and meaningful opportunities. With Open Dialogue Foundation, we continued supporting people where it mattered most.
We assisted in delivering hundreds of bionic hands to veterans in Ukraine, exposed in the U.S. Congress and European Parliament the weaponisation of behavioural data, Silver and Purple Notice of #INTERPOL and shed light on transnational financial repression by authoritarian regimes like #Kazakhstan, #Kyrgyzstan, and Russia reaching EU and U.S. citizens and entities.
We contributed proudly to stopping Chat Control regulation again and shared personal stories reminding why we should be especially active in protecting the privacy of payments, communications, and their developers in the digital era.
Encryption of communication and #Bitcoin are the two tools serving as fundamental guarantees for human rights in the digital era.
On a personal note, after years of separation and health challenges, long-pending divorce papers were finally granted this year, and I fully regained my health.
I'm deeply grateful for the people, lessons, and moments that shaped this year. Looking ahead to another wonderful one.
Photo credits: @mkphotons
I have no idea what it was 😅 but looks very strange 😂😂😂
Do you know what is it? Or it is spam?
We deeply disagree with both ladies. Luckily we have more MEPs how are open minded and understanding risks of digital euro.
Btw, you are writing on this platform because you enjoy free speech that someone defended for you in Western countries, because it was developed by brilliant minds who grew up in the West thanks to freedoms defended by others, and because this and many other freedom tools were funded by donors coming from free societies.
Because someone did this work of defending freedom, you can sit here and write long posts, even when they make no sense.
Just keep that in mind and respect the work of others, because it is clear you will not even stand up to defend yourself.
Update on bringing attention of #transnational financial repression - urgent need to defend our privacy, #behavioral data by the European Parliament.
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https://blossom.primal.net/95d1d5c92c34966875cec83a34b9dd755cba85fa4815c7987b2e6ee1cf794979.mov
I see from your answer that I shouldn’t try because it will be just useless. Have you ever tried to speak to them? Why American bitcoiners can defend and lobby their interests successfully and eu bitcoiners just can only discourage, Im not even mentioning lack of intention to support defending themselves.
What a suicidal mindset?
So with this logic, if they want to cancel our privacy and put devs/users to prison we should just silently accept? Is it your choice?
Link for the document:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/AFET-AM-778262_EN.pdf
BEHAVIORAL DATA MUST BE PROTECTED
Some results after our advocacy mission educating MEPs in #Brussels about how dictators and their proxies weaponise behavioural data against #EU and #US citizens and entities: travel, communication, and financial service providers collect data about every single person.
This work is now reflected in the 2025 annual human rights report introduced by the European Parliament.
We are grateful that MEPs are ready to back our testimony and the evidence from the #Belgian court on how #FATF recommendations are being heavily abused to undermine security and financial integrity.
This why our top priority to defend privacy as a fundamental human right in digital age regulation.
This is an example of why we need to have safe space for developers, investors and users in the western countries. Without it we will not have privacy tools anywhere.
You can deny importance of advocacy for privacy of payment and communication, but its fundamental role will bring you back to reality.
So use your voice to defend privacy, or support those who are willing to do it.
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Info thread:
#GrapheneOS is being heavily targeted by the French state because we provide highly secure devices and won't include backdoors for law enforcement access to our software. They're conflating us with companies selling closed source products using portions of our code. Considering it is easy to search GrapheneOS online and read our documentation, you can only assume this is intentional.
Both French state media and corporate media are publishing many stories attacking the GrapheneOS project based on false and unsubstantiated claims from French law enforcement. This has even escalated to broadcast media. They've made a clear threat to seize our servers and arrest our developers if we do not cooperate by adding backdoors. Due to this, we're leaving French service providers and will leave / never operate in France.
In these attack pieces, they describe GrapheneOS with features not present in our software and showing sites and guides not in our control nor authored by us.
We need substantial help from the community to push back against this across platforms. People malicious towards us are also using it as an opportunity to spread libel/harassment content targeting our team, raid our chat rooms and much more. /e/ and iodéOS are both based in France, and are both actively attacking GrapheneOS. /e/ receives substantial government funding. Both are extremely non-private and insecure which is why France is targeting us while those get government funding.
We need a lot more help than usual and we're sending out a notification for situational awareness. If people help us, it will enable us to focus more on development again including releasing experimental Pixel 10 releases very soon. Spread the word about this current situation.
Initial thread: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115575997104456188
Follow-up:
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115583866253016416
Thread about the FBI and European law enforcement selling devices to criminals using GrapheneOS code: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115589833471347871
Thread about how ANSSI (French national cybersecurity agency) contributed to GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115594002434998739
Sad to read this.
Let’s stay in touch/discuss and document the facts of attacks.
Im sure you are EU citizens in majority. If so - we need to activate your representatives in the EU parliament and not only, other institutions to expose and explain attacks. Happy to support your privacy protection tool. It is a good opportunity because of the general campaign to defend privacy in the EU against #ChatControl. Let me know if you are interested.
Why not? :) lets try!
It is fine for me. 🐣😉
To make changes in the society we need 1-3% of population.
To make my live happy I need only one man. Im selective :)
Not sold! Just to start discussion!
My ‘may I meet you’ comes along with ‘what do you know about #Bitcoin’ and… ‘are you ready to defend #privacy?’ 😂 🧡
Which one is better? ☺️🥰
Photo credit for Matti Keski-Kohtamäki (x/ig: @mkphotons) 🧡🚀
I love to take care not only of human rights, but #healthy routines ☺️🧡
We need to do #tennis and #bitcoin meet-ups :)
Why cigar? Lets do something more healthy!
Take care!
Yes, exiling protection doesn’t exist any more. It is just illusion, memory about good old times…